Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:45:10 -0400 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggested hack for ntpdate flags Message-ID: <20000627214510.A6905@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <200006280110.e5S1AB657245@orthanc.ab.ca>; from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:10:10PM -0600 References: <20000627151956.D1800@numachi.com> <200006280110.e5S1AB657245@orthanc.ab.ca>
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:10:10PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> writes:
>
> Brian> ntpdate_flags="`sed -n 's/^server \(.*\)/\1/p' <
> Brian> /etc/ntp.conf`"
>
> I have always used:
>
> awk '/^server/ {print $2}' /etc/ntp.conf
>
> The awk version doesn't suffer from lines in ntp.conf like:
>
> server ntp.foo.bar prefer
>
> and I find it a bit more readable than the equivelent sed.
Yup, more rigorous. I'll give it a shake...
> --lyndon
>
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